Advantage

"System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage."

"Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good."

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other."

"Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical."

"The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am."

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."

"What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less."